"The host, Rick Mercer, was doing a series in which people well known for one kind of accomplishment, such as writing, astonished viewers by doing something different and entirely unrelated, such as rolling a joint. I want you to be a hockey goalie, Rick said. Oh, I don't think so, I said. Couldn't I just maybe bake a pie or something? No. You gotta be a goalie. Why? Because it'll be funny. Trust me."
"I was a goalie, in a full set of pads, with gloves and a stick. There I am on YouTube, still goalie-ing it up; and, yes, it is kind of funny. I wore my own little white figure skates with black socks over them to make them look like hockey skates. But you can't slide and stack the pads in figure skates, so those feats were performed by a body double an accomplished women's hockey player."
A comedic stunt placed a public figure in full goalie gear, with a professional hockey player serving as body double for dangerous moves. The body double concept is presented as a metaphor for creative practice: there is the daily self and other internal personas that take on the actual demanding or risky labor. Multiple internal personas can exist to accomplish tasks the everyday self avoids. After publication of The Handmaid's Tale, an audience member asserted autobiographical intent; that claim conflicted with the narrator's coerced role and the individual's lived experience.
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